Outside the Beltway

Has Bashar al-Assad crossed the red line drawn by President Obama? And does it matter?

There seems to be an effort underway to reassess the legacy of our 43rd President.

In a chaotic week, one source of chaos was remarkably quiet.

The odds that any of the Senators who voted no on Manchin/Toomey will pay a political price for doing so is low.

A preventative strike against North Korea is a bad idea.

Whether in the blogosphere or on television, people are increasingly only accessing sources of news and opinion that confirm their pre-conceived ideas.

Revisiting an old posting of mine on the subject.

Officials in the Japanese city of Yokohama mistakenly announced the launch of a North Korean missile to 40,000 followers on Twitter.

Our current approach isn’t working.

My latest for The National Interest, “Hagel’s Three Questions,” ponders our national security decisionmaking.

So what, exactly, is going on in North Korea? And how should we respond to Kim’s bluster?

The Army has war gamed a conflict to secure a failed North Korea. It would not be a cakewalk.

Things are heating up on the Korean Peninsula again.

North Korea has conducted its third test of a nuclear weapon.

North Korea’s latest provocations may be testing the patience of their patrons in Beijing.

Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.

Richard Lugar puts in a word for compromise and good governance on his way out of the Senate.

Not surprisingly, television and reality don’t really coincide.

Because some things are worth reinforcing.

Senator Rand Paul suggests the GOP may want to reconsider its foreign policy aggressiveness.

Jimmy Carter’s ex-presidency has lasted the equivalent of 26 Iranian hostage crises.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

The new Red Dawn promises to be even sillier than the first.

Some interesting developments in Pyongyang.